>> a mix of snow, sxran ice moving across the state tonight. what does it mean for your morning commute? . >> it shouldn't have happened no one disagrees with that but after the shooting of a police trainee, new questions about the train scomblg paying hundreds a month for your smartphone, how to keep your bill under 50 bucks. abc2 news starts now. now we go outside. stake a look outside as wint erp weather coats baltimore. it is slick and slippery on the roadways. . >> wyatt everhart starts us off, wyatt any idea if the snow is going to stick. >> it has not been sticking so far. there will be slushy roads out there. take a look where the icy weather still is, snow still

coming down in cecil county and south toward goldz bro on the eastern shore. mostof the precipitation pushing further to the east. most ofthis is kicking out over the jersey shore. temperatures nowclose to freezing or there in frederick and york. we're abovefreezing in baltimore. today wewere in the upper 40s so the ground temps are keeping this from sticking. through theovernight hours, expecting that temperature to fall toward freezing. much more on how things will change by the weekend is coming up. >> for continuing coverage wake up to good morning maryland. lauren cook will have the road conditions for you. >> there was some new questions tonight on exactly what was going on leading up to

the shooting of a police treen knee. >> tonight that man was in critical condition at shock trauma. as christian schaefer reports there is dispute over the details. >> chris is live in the news room with the late jest so far the only public xheptss we've gotten from verse came last night. a state police representative said that police training has been gone on at rosedale for years. if that'stycase, a woman that lives right next to grounds says it's news to her. >> after more than a century of treating patients with mental sdabts, the rose wood clinic has been closed. >> they said that the university was going to come in and basically come in and bring a campus here. we also were told they would have more housing condos in that area. >> instead.

>> this had didn't happen. >> then on tuesday, something did happen. some kind of police training on the grounds involving sources say roughly 50 trainees from different agencies and ended with the baltimore city instructor firing a live round and striking a trainee in the head. >> i was surprised it was used for that. . >> so why were police using the facility for training? they haven't said but at a news conference tuesday night a representative for the maryland state police said. >> that facility has been used fsh training purposes for many years. >> sharon lewis has lived next door since 1988 and she's never seen police head into or out o' the grounds you had no idea. >> none. from a safety point, we should have been aware that was going to take place.

>> also, no answer on the question of how a live round could have been fired during training. from the outside of rose wood we could not see any check in of police weapons. >> there's no acceptable explanation for why live rounds were at a training exercise. >> the state department of health and mental hygiene o' owns the hospital grounds. aspokesperson told the abc2 news investigators they p didn't know the department was aware that the police were using the facility. all training has been suspended indefinitely. >> and while there are many unanswered questions about training practices, we do know about the guns that are supposed to be used for training. briankuebler got a look at the weapons that should be used for training. >> this is is video from a

baltimore city police training exercise in 2009. abc2 newsverse were given exclusive access back then to document what the commissioner called diamond standard training. thatprogram no longer exists but many of the practices do like the use of what is called similar ewe in additions. sources tell us this blue handguns that can only shoot these types of paint bullets are the only firearm used in training. city police do use live ammunition but only in a single file range. in most any other type of training, these blue guns are used. this is how they were described to us in 2009. >> this is i a gun that is like a glok 17 which is a nine-

millimeter pistol. it'sdesigned to fire just these paint guns. >> these guns are expensive training tools and were new to the department back then. sathtim palmer explained to united states why the department uses them. >> this is what we use to raise the intensity of the training, give the officer a feeling of being in a position where he can have a projectile coming to him. >> that's some story wasn't it from abc2 news investigator brian kuebler. we want to reiterate that the diamond standard training no longer exists however we're told they use the same guns. follow briankuebler on twitter. again, wewant to know how you feel about the city's response so far to the training shooting. join theconversation now on our facebook page that's abc2news.com/facebook. >> university of maryland

student behind an off campus murder suicide used to work for university police. they saydayvon green worked as a facility police. he was fired after being late twice. todaywe learned the surviving roommate is out of the hospital. he was shot in the leg. stevenrane died. . >> he spoke at our graduation a a award ceremony and gave him this award from the english department. just a really fine young man. >> green's family told police he had been suffering from mental illness for at least a year now. >> new video now of a deadly house fire out of charlestown. investigators say eight people were inside this house in

indian head when it caught fire. 7people made it out. 66 year old geraldine key did not. . >> kelly not only does the providence road fire department put your fire out, they help you out. listen to what they're doing, since putting out a fire down the street from their fire house, a family of 7 used to live there. 65 years they've learned it's after the fire that they're most needed. they areaccepting items at the fire house and they've set up a meal train so the family has dinner ever night. >> the family seems overwhelmed by that. for us, these are our neighbors so it's our way of continuing to give to our neighbors. many of our members li around here so it's not just a day at the office this is us protecting our own. >> what a job by the

firefightersment schools and churches all helping out these family but the volunteer firefighters are the greatest neighbors to have. >> if you're a teacher, some state lawmakers want to help you out. they want to give you a big ir tax break for school supplies you buy. the billwould allow teachers to write off as much as 5 hundred dollars for school supplies they buy out of their own pocket. right nowthey can get 250 dollars from the federal government but the state doesn't have such an offer. >> they make a sacrifice in the first place and with tight school budgets many teachers go into their own pocket to buy supplies. >> the price tag runs about 33 (3)300-0000 sdmrars one thing lawmakers are talking about is -- 33 $33.01 lawmakers are

trying to work on that. >> these beetles are potentially dangerous. theywere found newport a shipment of celery seed from india. thebugs are dead but they're one of the world's most destructive insectings. an outbreak could cost tens of millions of dollars. >> we're learning more about the shooting in lock urn. police say the victim is a 27 year old man shot walking on st. luke's lane. the man is expected to make it. and policesay this morning we had a stabbing tied to a robbery on the two hundred block of south avenue. the victim was stabbed you multiple times and is now in stable condition. >> well they're cabin burned to the ground with a suspected cop killer inside and tonight the woman who owned that cabin is speaking out.

coming up, how she learned that christopher dorner was possibly barricaded in her home. >> what will be left in the wake of this weather maker. i'v me now, abc2 news working for you tonight with how you can get that cell phone bill under 50 dollars a month. >> we'll be back in 60 seconds.

if you have a carnival cruise bookd listen up, the company is cancelling 12 more voi aa.j.s. this doesn't include people leaving from baltimore. anengine room fire sunday left a boat adrift at sea with no power. there are reports of flooded rooms and sewage filled hallways. >> everyone here -- no one here at carnival is happy about

the conditions aboard the ship. weare very sorry about what is taking place. >> earlier this week carnival cancelled the ship's next two voi aa.j.s. the ship is being towed to alabama at a slow rate. >> we're hearing from the owners tonight of burned out cabin where christopher dorner was apparently barricaded. . >> for more than 80 years the 7 oaks mountain cabins have been a quiet place to relax until tuesday. that's when a man thought to be christopher dorner chose the main cabin as the spot of his last stand. this man was shocked buzz his mother owns the cabin. >> my mom texts me dorner is at the cabin, fire fight. so ifound the closest t sxrshgs

the first thing i saw was our cabins there and i was in shock. >> they own 9-1-1 restoration, a company that leans up after fires and other disasters. justlast week he joked about a co-worker that dorner may end up at the cabins i said hey i may need your assistance because this guy is running loose around my mom's cabins. >> he says no one on his from his family has been able to return to the cabins. judgingby the news media shots, he says it appears only the main cabin was damaged but the federally protected bildzing was insure ed and will be rebuilt. anemotional loss that he and his family are trying to keep in perspective. >> we lost a cabin, there's others that have lost loved

ones. what we've lost is nothing compared to what others have lost. >> los angeles police say they did not intentionally burn down the cabin. >> in our consumer alert tonight, everybody's looking for a car that lasts. this year'smost dependable car will cost you money. lexus top it is 2013 survey. it's the second year in a row toyota's luxury division claimed the spot. domestic carsare more dependable. por shalso going to cost you a lot of money, that came in second with lincoln and toyota tying for third. >> kelly, remember back in the day when your cell phone cost 40 or 50 dollar as month? most of us pay much more. johnmatarese shows us how we can all go back to the 50

dollar bill and still have your smartphone. >> if you or anyone in our family has a smartphone, you know that monthly bills can easily be 80 dollars a month and can top a hundred dollars if you're on that phone a lot. there are plenty of ways to keep that bill under $50 a month if you know where to look. >> smartphone bill out of control? a new survey finds that 60% of iphone users now pay over a hundred dollars a month. android users are also feeling the pinch. >> it's horrible. >> expensive. >> yes, like $150 a month. >> but a growing number of smartphone users are fighting back by dumping a-their expensive plans. a prepaidphone can get you a smartphone at a flip phone price. wal-martsmart talk is the faster prepaid plan. . >> what do i get for $45 a month.

>> you get unlimited talk, as many minutes as you want, unlimited texts. >> everyone data is is unlimited though you may find dna dna throttle led or slowed down after you hit two gigs. >> the only catch, you have to buy your smartphone at full prize. but wal-mart's bob mal ri tells me there are cheaper android phones available. >> this is an 80 dollar phone basically. >> it seems everyone is pushing prepaid. cricket sals offers prepaid smartphones with unlimited data for around 50 dollars a month. even a-at&tand verizon is are jumping in. >> unlimited talk and unlimited text and five hundred megabytes which is great for that person just brouzing a little bit.

>> with prepaid you either buy a card at the store or you pay on line. . >> this way, i can pay when i can afford to pay. >> best of f all, no contract and you can cancel or change plans any time. >> so if you know where to look, you can still get a smartphone for 50 bucks a month or less and it doesn't have to look like a 15 year old flip phone and that way you don't waste your money. >> and now, maryland's most accurate forecast. all right, let's show you where the storm is now. pushing out of the eastern shore in northeastern maryland. we're clearing from baltimore westward. closer looknow, you can see some snow now from northern caroline county toward up to kent and up into cecil county. this is the set up now, most of

this stuff has cleared out, we're going don't see a clearing pattern as we go there the overnight but there could be the chance for icy hear areas. highs today, you have to remember this didn't accumulate on the ground because the highs were in the midto upper 40s. soas temperatures drops the ground temp still above freezing. youhave to remember in the context, it's only been another hour or two of at at or below freezing temperatures after a day of well above freezing. so we had rain at onset and then the snow level began to drop, but as the snow level dropped to the surface level and we had sunset, basically it ran out of precipitation. so the whole thing moved out of here when we got the conditions

that would allow accumulation. we willcontinue to see the last of this pushing further and further east as we move to day break. lookslike a sunny day tomorrow, breezy, temperatures should make the upper 40s so we'll melt whatever is out there toward the pennsylvania state line. andthen friday, it's partly cloudy and not so bad. cold air will wrap in toward daybreak tomorrow. have to watch out for the lightly slushed areas, secondary roads could be icy at daybreak. the storm will continue to clear out as we move tru the overnight and dhen we'll put our attention on the next storm and it appears to be similar in some respects. itwill come in after some mild weather. once again, looks luke a mild

thursday and a very mild friday. we should be in the mid -- mid to low 50s friday. mayberain going to snow briefly toward saturday morning and then this cold blast comes in late saturday into early sunday and it will hold temperatures down. tonight, still a little wet snow, that slushy coating, a concern at daybreak and then quickly going above freezing. for your valentine plans, conditions will be nice and clear. should be a regular lover's paradise. don't forgetto down load our weather app. as we look into sunday, look at that, windy, low 30s, sunday

looks very cold my friends. >> cold, yeah. >> like a roller coaster ride is it me, snow, warm, cold, rainy. >> it has been a wild february. i'm glad for the valentine a's plans tomorrow. >> i get to spend it with you. >> yeah, 38 minutes and the arrows will be flying. >> more abc2 news is coming up next. >> but first here's jimmy kimmel with a sneak peek. >> tonight we have music from fall out boy plus james firemanco. >> thank you ann and now the award for best supporting actor. >> he thinks he's still hosting the oscars.

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. >> the envelope please, sir, here are the names of a few more oscar winners, reese withs with wither spoon, hally berry, will all be there to hands out aawards. . >> and you can see all of the presenters handing out acting's top honor february 24th right here on abc2 news. >> and everybody will be dressed appropriately. >> yes they will. >> i just checked the parking lot, no snow but we'll have to scrape off the cars you will. day break parked outside, give yourself time to scrape off the cars.

>> i forgot to floss. >> yes floss and all of that. >> to the northeast till a little wintery weather. we'repinpoint it for you. you everbeen over the eastern shore between chester town, and miller town, this is the area still picking up some winter weather. tomorrow, may be some icy spots at your morning commute time frame. i wouldn't be surprised if there were a few school di delays around the pennsylvania line. and just in time for thanksgiving -- not thanksgiving, cupid is happy though. >> it's thursday.

. >> tomorrow's the day. >> we'll be looking at each other's desks to see who got flowers and who didn't. >> you have to send flowers or you get in hot water. otherdays of the year i think they have a bigger impact because it's not expected. >> see y'all tomorrow. >> honey. >>

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